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Here’s information (from the Meteorite Bulletin) about this particular meteorite.

Santa Filomena
Basic information Name: Santa Filomena
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes, confirmed fall
Year fell: 2020
Country: Brazil
Mass: 80 kg
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  

H5-6  

This is 1 of 144 approved meteorites classified as H5-6. 
Comments: Approved 1 Nov 2020
Writeup
             

Santa Filomena        8°9’45.66"S, 40°36’50.54"W

Pernambuco, Brazil

Confirmed fall: 2020 Aug 19

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H5-6)

History: (Andre L R Moutinho, Marcelo Zurita). A bright fireball appeared on the western region of Pernambuco state, Brazil, on August 19, 2020, 13:18:17 UTC. Four cameras from a weather forecast company named "Clima Ao Vivo" recorded the bolide in the cities of Floresta, Salgueiro, Belém de São Francisco and São José do Belmonte. The GOES-16 satellite also captured the bolide flash. Using the video data, the BRAMON (Brazilian Meteor Observation Network) performed the bolide triangulation and orbit calculation. The meteoroid entered the Earth atmosphere at 15.36 km/s, in a 43.1° inclination (relative to ground) travelling 61.3 km in 4 " and extinguished at 20.9 km height, 7.5 km east of the city of Santa Filomena. The meteoroid orbit was calculated as follows: semi-major axis 2.0 AU, eccentricity 0.94, inclination 0.26°, pericenter longitude 143.5° and ascending node 146.7°. Stones were recovered within a 16.0 × 2.7 km elipse compared to the predicted strewn field of 40 × 4 km as calculated by Jim Goodall. Santa Filomena is located nearly at the middle of the strewn field. The majority of the stones, by weight, were recovered by local people. A 38.2 kg mass was found ~7 km from Santa Filomena on the Pernambuco-Piaui state border. A 2.81 kg oriented nosecone hammered a house in front of the main city church and plaza. Another 1.5 kg stone hit a Cohab house ~1 km NE of the plaza. Other stones were witnessed to fall by residents of the village of Caramari located few hundred meters North of the Cohab house. Stones were also found by researchers and meteorite hunters: Andre L. R. Moutinho (4 pcs, 57 g), "Meteoriticas" - UFRJ (3 pc, 83.2 g), Robert Ward (1 pc, 34 g), José C. Medeiros - Astro Agreste (3 pcs, 62 g), Cartier Ramalho and Evandro Peixoto - CASF (3 pcs, 243g) and Luiz F. Castro - GASF (2 pcs, 118 g).

Physical characteristics: Recovered meteorites range in weight from <1 g to 38.2 kg, and the total mass recovered is at least 80 kg. Most stones are whole individuals with a high percentage of crust while a smaller percentage are fragments. The fusion crust is dull black and very fresh. The 2.81 kg specimen (MNRJ) is cone-shaped, regmaglypted and flight-oriented. The 38.2 kg is covered with regmaglypts and fully fusion crusted.